this snack belongs to the ages

On the trail of history Quack Aunt and I powered up with some seriously salty snacks at the 7-11 in Waldorf, Maryland.


Not only was the "Three Cheese Big Bite" already filled with cheese due to the marvels of modern snack science, there was a plethora of FREE, extrudable toppings!!!! Quack Aunt a) did not appreciate my lengthy photo shoot of the FREE CHILI and b) also did not appreciate my lengthy discussion of the matter after the fact.


"So we will have a button that says 'Push for Free Chili.'" That is some serious snacking.

wedded to snacks

So Sarah got married!! And celebrated with many snacks. Which I appreciated.

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From left to right, that is blue fish, pulled pork on a biscuit(!,) mini reubens (!!,) and crab ceviche. They were all delicious, plentiful and served shortly after the "I dos" outside by the water for some truly scenic snacking.

There was also a humongous vat of crab dip served out on this lovely pier. My photographer became so distracted by this dip he failed to photograph it, you know how unreliable freelancers are. But I can attest to its deliciousness.

After dinner (and again at breakfast!!) there was a mind boggling array of sweet snacks, in the form of a chocolate buffet crafted by the groom's mom and aunt. What serious snackers they must be!! Kudos!!!
All told, the SnackManiac ate 7 or 8 mini brownie bites with a Reese's cup in the middle. I will not tell you how many of them were consumed with my scrambled eggs.


There were also candies made in the wedding color, which was a spring green. Here is a transcript of my conversation with G when he returned to the table with one:

K: what is that?
G: Sarah and Jason of course.
K: oh, right, please take a picture of that.

It was a delight.

UPDATE:

Sarah just got back from her honeymoon in Greece where she spotted this international snack. Those Greeks have every right to lay claim to modern civilization, check that donut out!!

Spotted: business man on metro with single-serve pack of Pop-Tarts in the breast pocket of his suit coat. It was like a pocket square, only a snack.

How practical AND fashion forward!

cupcakes everywhere!

Check out this storefront on Dupont Circle. More CUPCAKES!!! The great thing about this new cupcake joint, "Hello Cupcake," is right across the street from Krispy Kreme, so you can hop over for some dessert after breakfast.

Snack sighting

Spotted: Warren Brown, Oprah's favorite entrepreneur and proprietor of DC's first cupcakery, at SweetGreen in Georgetown.

What brings him ALL the way from U Street??

Could it be Georgetown Cupcake, the talked about (and tasty) new SHOPPE right around the corner?? Was he checking out the competition??

SnackManiac is NOT above spreading snack-related rumors, so let the cupcake carnage begin!

an explosive new snack

SnackManiac talked an office full of fellow snackers into sampling a disgusting sounding new snack called "FIZZIX (TM) Carbonated Yogurt." Can you believe it??!?

Here is the snack:

Based on the packaging and description, this is fizzy yogurt that you are supposed to slurp out of a plastic tube at which point you will basically be electrocuted by the intensity of the bubbles. My snack-testers and I were expecting this experience to be similar to eating Pop Rocks. Or being struck by lightening.

Neither of these things happened.

It was pretty tasty though, and if you pressed your tongue against the roof of your mouth, you could sort of feel the carbonation. The flavors the SM focus group sampled were Wild Cherry Zing and Strawberry Lemonade Jolt. [Taste-testers, please share your snacking experience in the comments section!!!!]

By way of helpful snackground information, here is the person who "invented" this snack:

You might have wondered (out loud, probably,) who on EARTH would have invented such a wacky snack???

The answer???

MORMONS!!!!

The "technology" behind Fizzix was developed at Brigham Young University. By this goofy scientist(?) guy. The caption under this picture on the BYU PRESS RELEASE(!) was:

"Lynn Ogden, professor of food science, first tasted the sensation of carbonated yogurt after he threw a block of dry ice into a bucket of yogurt more than 20 years ago."

Yeah, I could see Lynn "throwing a block of dry ice into a bucket of yogurt." That sort of thing happens all of time in Utah.

west coast snacking don't stop

G was inconsiderate enough to send me this picture of a delicious chipwich he seems to have come across in CALIFORNIA. It appears to be an M&M (made by "global powerhouse" Mars Inc.) cookie and mint chip ice cream.

I WANT THIS SNACK!!!!

G also brags that it only cost $1.50. Well you know what, you can get FREE ice cream at Ben and Jerry's right now and SAVE $1.50 for something else. So there.